But now that familiar stage set has come crashing down under the weight of a spectacular crop of new hominid fossils from Africa, combined with revelations about the environment of our earliest ...

A set of stunning images show lions and giraffes silhouetted against the sky during the 'golden hour' of the African savannah at sunset. Photographer Clement Kiragu, 39, stalks his subjects in ...

The series, premiers on Sunday September 9 with a look at life on the Kenyan savanna. (Adam appears in episode two, entitled ‘Desert Odyssey.’) The series aims to show aspects of Africa far ...

But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains of sub-Saharan Africa. The smaller, darker forest elephant ...

The African Development Bank has proposed developing the continent's 400 million hectares of cultivatable savanna lands, but guest writers Sam Dindi and Esther Ngumbi explain the potential ...

While savannas are located on six of the seven continents, the largest are found in equatorial Africa. The savanna climate varies according to the season. In the wet season, the weather is warm ...

Coupled field observations and phytoclimatic modeling show that the distribution of African forest and savanna ecosystems are highly predictable by climate, researchers report in a new study.